September 2017 issue
President's column; 2017 Shannon Lecture: The Spirit of Information Theory, by David Tse; News From NSF: Communications and Information Foundations Cluster, by Rick Brown and Phil Regalia; Awards; Report on seminar in Honor of Kees Schouhamer Immink, by Han Vinck; Reflections on MOOC on Information Theory, by Raymond W. Yeung; Tony Ephremides's Historian's column; Students' Corner by Alejandro Lancho, Ori Peled, S. B. Balaji, Ganesh R. Kini, and Jie Li (compiled by Parham Noorzad); From the field: the IEEE Sweden Section Joint Chapter, by Tommy Svensson and Michael Lentmaier; From the field: the IEEE Information Theory Society India Chapter, by Bikash Kumar Dey; a report by Bikash Kumar Dey on the 2017 IEEE IT Society Summer School at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay; a report by Han Vinck on the 10th Asia-Europe Workshop on Concepts in Information Theory and Communications; a report by Vladimir Sidorenko and Antonia Wachter-Zeh on the Munich Workshop on Coding and Applications 2017 (MWCA 2017); a report by Tobias Koch, Alfonso Martinez, Pablo M. Olmos, and Gonzalo Vazquez-Vilar on the 2017 European School of Information Theory; minutes from the IEEE Information Theory Society Board of Governors Meeting, by Stark Draper; news from the ITSoc Online Committee, by Anand D. Sarwate; Outreach Through IT Society Chapters, by Mine Alsan and Emina Soljanin; WITHITS activities and updates, by Lalitha Sankar and Natasha Devroye; activities of the IEEE Information Theory Society Outreach Subcommittee, by Joerg Kliewer, Aaron Wagner, Tara Javidi, Bobak Nazer, and Vincent Y. F. Tan; Recent publications.